TIME AFTER TIME

Two pairs of girls living a century apart have an otherworldly connection.

Elizabeth and Patricia met in 1925, when Patricia came to work as a kitchen girl in 19-year-old Elizabeth’s family home on Mulberry Lane. The young women dove headfirst into a blissful romance, despite their class difference and the widespread prejudice against Irish people like Patricia. In 2025, 19-year-old Libby, who’s cued white, feels destined to fix up the dilapidated Victorian house on Mulberry Lane, so she buys it with an inheritance from her grandmother. Her reckless purchase—she’s solidly middle class, and the money was intended for college—enrages her parents, and her controlling father kicks her out. In a set design class, Libby meets Irish American Tish, who’s good with construction and unhappily living in an overcrowded apartment. Tish first noticed the Mulberry Lane house when a green glass stone embedded in the sidewalk sent a shock up her leg; she quickly agrees to help restore it and eventually moves in with Libby. The girls grow closer as they work on the house, and the journals that Elizabeth, who reads white, left behind help Libby unravel the mysteries binding all four girls together. Daughtry introduces multiple timelines, perspectives, and characters from the outset, but the initial investment for readers in keeping these elements straight is well worth it for the enjoyable saga that follows. The author deeply conveys the intensity of the romances in both timelines.

A page-turning story about the power of love.